Podcast Episodes featuring Tom Perrotta

Writer Tom Perrotta On 'Mrs. Fletcher'

Fresh Air - October 25, 2019 20:30 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 32.7K ratings
Mrs. Fletcher tells the story of Eve, a single mother whose only child, Brendan, has left for college. Perrotta says the book was inspired by the upheaval he experienced when his own kids moved out. The novel has been adapted into an HBO series starring Kathryn Hahn It begins this weekend. Perrot...

Tom Perrotta on porn addiction, suburban America and exploring gender norms

Lit Up - July 22, 2018 14:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 117 ratings
Tom Perrotta, the author of Election, Little Children and The Leftovers talks to Angie about his latest novel Mrs. Fletcher, which explores sexuality in America, empty nest syndrome and the universal longing for human connection. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more abo...

Tom Perrotta | Mrs. Fletcher

Free Library Podcast - July 16, 2018 10:25 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 106 ratings
Watch the video here. ''A daring chronicler of our most profound anxieties and human desires'' (Washington Post), Tom Perrotta is the author of some of the most popular and critically acclaimed novels of our time, including Election, which was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film starring Matth...

Novelist Tom Perrotta on white privilege, gender identity, and Tracy Flick 20 years later

I Think You're Interesting - September 27, 2017 15:02 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 213 ratings
Tom Perrotta’s books have become one of our most consistently enjoyable dissections of a very specific sort of America — upper-class, wryly comic, and white. Even when his books dig into a world where something very much like the Rapture has happened (as in The Leftovers), they take place long en...

Author Tom Perrotta on The Leftovers and Lord of the Rings

Nerdette - July 30, 2014 21:15 ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
Tom Perrotta talks about his novel and new HBO show The Leftovers, why his nickname in high school was Frodo and what he learned from a summer working as a garbage collector. Plus a nerd confession about a Tinder match gone awry because of Game of Thrones.

Episode 209 — Tom Perrotta

Otherppl with Brad Listi - September 18, 2013 08:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 448 ratings
Tom Perrotta is the guest. He is the author of several acclaimed works of fiction, including Election, Little Children, The Abstinence Teacher, and The Leftovers. His new story collection, Nine Inches, is now available from St. Martin's. Kirkus, in a starred review, says "The acclaimed novelist ...

1353: A 2004 Interview with Tom Perrotta

Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column - September 06, 2012 02:00 ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
"...I knew the story was going to end with a woman waiting at a playground at night...."

Tom Perrotta on Flannery O’Connor

New Books Network - September 23, 2011 18:09 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratings
[Re-posted with permission from Jenny Attiyeh’s ThoughtCast] Tom Perrotta, the esteemed author of Little Children, Election, The Abstinence Teacher and the recently published novel The Leftovers (St. Martin’s Press, September 2011) speaks with ThoughtCast about a writer who fascinates, irritates ...